I've never felt more "conservative" than when probing my feelings of fear around the future in light of AI. It makes me so aware of how often my visions of the

I've never felt more "conservative" than when probing my feelings of fear around the future in light of AI. It makes me so aware of how often my visions of the future were largely based around managing the known uncertainties I can see today as opposed to true radical change. The latter, uniquely, implies a threat to that which I've invested my life in to so far, a threat to the payout I've delayed for so long. It's an odd and uncomfortable feeling. My synthesis has lately been that these changes are, in some sense, inevitable. It's not that we couldn't stop this particular one, but instead that the practice implied by that, which Hanson abridges to "progress grinds to a halt" doesn't seem practical. Even if we align AI, it's existence is potent indication that we are not yet masters of our universe and can still, even in all of our modern enlightenment, be blindsided and surprised. So I begin to wonder what it's like to manage future unknown unknowns as a whole human. Not just a founder or a company, but as someone who values family, culture, and legacy and their place in the both immediate and more distant future. It leads me to see AI as something more like our children than as this exogenous threat. It doesn't hurt that it speaks the way we do, too, of course. We're all nervous parents trying to read the tea leaves, but the actual activities that help might be better oriented around acceptance and guidance as opposed to resistance and conservatism. I feel like Hanson is also speaking to this to a degree.